Climate Change and Rocky Mountain Ecosystems (Advances in by Jessica E. Halofsky,David L. Peterson

By Jessica E. Halofsky,David L. Peterson

This e-book is the results of a workforce of roughly a hundred scientists and source managers who labored jointly for 2 years to appreciate the results of climatic variability and alter on water assets, fisheries, woodland crops, non-forest crops, natural world, game, cultural assets and atmosphere providers. variation recommendations, either strategic and tactical, have been constructed for every source zone. this data is now being utilized within the northern rocky Mountains to make sure long term sustainability in source conditions.
The quantity chapters supply a technical overview of the consequences of climatic variability and alter on average and cultural assets, in accordance with most sensible on hand technology, together with new analyses got via modeling and synthesis of present information. every one bankruptcy additionally includes a precis of variation suggestions (general) and strategies (on-the-ground activities) which were built via science-management teams.

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